The morning anchor team at California TV station KTLA has become the target of some disparaging tweets after they dove under the anchor desk as a magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit Southern California Monday morning.

Anchors Megan Henderson and Chris Schauble of KTLA were on-air when the quake started at around 6:25 local time. It lasted only a few seconds, but the station's studio swayed and the two ducked under the anchor desk.

Almost immediately, Twitter users began to mock the pair for going for cover as the quake, centered near UCLA, shook the area.

Schuable and Henderson were reading their scripts when the earthquake started, and Schauble interrupted Henderson, pointed up and said, "Earthquake! We're having an earthquake!"